Those who were edger to upgrade to the latest version of Internet Explorer should delay their expectation, because it seems that the latest version has an important bug. “We’re aware of a significant flaw affecting the XSS Filter in IE8, and we’ve taken steps to help protect our users by disabling the mechanism on our properties until a fix has been released.” It seems that the new version of Internet Explorer, has a major flow that enables security attacks against websites that are safe.

It seems that IE developers’ purpose was to increase browser’s security preventing XSS attacks against sites. Unfortunately, the result was not the desired one and the protection causes XSS vulnerabilities in websites that are otherwise safe. In this situation, Microsoft offers suggestions for a temporary patch including setting your Internet security zone settings to “high”. Even through, some reports state that these workarounds are not working.

Until the bug fixed version will be released, the recommendation is to use other browser than Internet Explorer. Is not necessary to uninstall it but just avoid using it. Moreover, we hope Microsoft will soon be able to transform Internet Explorer in a truly safe browser because for the moment is the most vulnerable.